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BleachBit 1.4 has much better support for Winapp2.ini, Firefox, and Google Chrome plus other improvements.

BleachBit, the open source system cleaner, announces the public 1.3 beta which includes enhancements, bug fixes, and translation updates. Please help test today.

These particular areas are a priority for testing:

BleachBit 1.2 fixes overwriting free disk space; better supports Firefox, Ubuntu, and Fedora; and more.

BleachBit, the open source system cleaner, announces the public 1.1 beta which includes enhancements, bug fixes, and translation updates. Please help test.

These particular areas are a priority for testing:

BleachBit 1.0 makes it easier to shred any file; adds three cleaners; improves cleaners for Google Chrome and Adobe Flash; has a digitally signed installer for Windows; and more.

BleachBit, the open source system cleaner, announces the public 1.0 beta which includes enhancements, bug fixes, and translation updates. Please help test.

These particular areas are a priority for testing:

BleachBit, the open source system cleaner, announces the public 1.0 beta which includes enhancements, bug fixes, and translation updates. Please help test.

These particular areas are a priority for testing:

BleachBit 0.9.6 adds support for LibreOffice and includes improvements for wiping free disk space, Google Chrome, Firefox, OpenOffice.org, winapp2.ini, and more.

BleachBit, the open source system cleaner, announces the public 0.9.6 beta which includes enhancements, bug fixes, and translation updates. Please help test.

These particular areas are a priority for testing:

During work to improve BleachBit's method of wiping free disk space, I noticed a relatively obscure way in which deleted files do not fully free the disk space they occupied. The process is basically to create an empty partition, fill it with 2000 files each 4096 bytes each, and then delete the files. If the files are in the root of the partition, then the file system keeps 45 more blocks allocated. If the 2000 files are created in a sub directory that is deleted after the 2000 files are deleted, then all the used blocks are freed.